About: Each chapter in this book deals with a different person who has in various ways fought or championed for Irish freedom. The contents listed below indicates those people whom the author considers to be at the forefront of the struggle for Irish emancipation.

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Contents: Introductions — The man who became a country (Eamon de Valera) — The longest funeral (Roger Casement) — United we stand – Divided we fall (Wolfe Tone) — Two fight or die (John Mitchel and Thomas Francis Meagher) — And then came November (Kevin Barry) — A man above all (Terence MacSwiney) — The bravest of the brave (Tom Clarke) — “Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” (Patrick Pearse) — Irish history at a glance — Bibliography.

About: A statistical return of the extent of townlands and towns, their Poor Law valuation, the number of males/females and the number of houses in County Wicklow. The number of persons and houses for 1841 are included for comparison purposes. This allows for a quick check on the effect that the Great Famine had on the demographics of West Wicklow.